A premature consensus: are happiness and sadness truly opposite affects?

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Affect dynamics, bereavement and resilience to loss (2007, background): “It is also of no surprise that the study of the structure of affective experience has been intensely debated (e.g. Watson and Tellegan, 1985; Green et al., 1993; Diener et al., 1995; Cacioppo et al., 1999; Feldman Barrett and Russell, 1999; Rafaeli and Revelle, 2006) as accurately capturing affectiv”
Coefficients Alpha, Beta, Omega, and the glb: Comments on Sijtsma (2009, methodology): “Using open source functions available in the psych package (Revelle, 2008) for R (R Development Core Team, 2008), we compared the six lower bounds of Guttman (1945), two ways of estimating α, one of which uses the traditional approach, (λ3 = α), the second of which is the α of the first principal co”
The General Factor of Personality, BIS-BAS, expectancies of reward and punishment, self-esteem, and positive and negative affect (2010, background): “Just as some have claimed that positive and negative affect reflects one common dimension from happy to sad (Russell & Carroll, 1999), others have argued that it is better to consider happy and sad as separate dimensions (Rafaeli & Revelle, 2006).”